I actually saw a demo of the Sooloos system at Magnolia Hifi in Seattle yesterday. It was pretty amazing.
The real power has to do with the user interface. You've never gotten around so many albums so quickly and so easily forgotten you were using a computer to do it. They have this thing called Focus that makes even their 2500 album demo collection easy to handle. I ended up here because I was looking for more info about it and happened to see the Squeezebox and the Transporter at the same time (they were on demo too- the Transporter sounds REALLY good! They had it on these big Martin Logan speakers with Macintosh amps!!) They looked really cool at what they do, but trust me, there is nothing, nothing I've ever seen that can do what Sooloos does. "Everything else is like reading a catalog to listen to music. This is still owning a record collection" is what the guy said. He was right. It was that music was fun instead of looking at a list and breaking your thumb to scroll around. They also have all the credits and reviews for all the albums. You can do a cool thing with Focus where you can find the drummer on an album, for example, and then focus and see just the records he played on. Then, in a while they are adding a music store and you'll be able to see the records in print that he played on and buy them. Pretty amazing. It's like having your collection with the liner credits and covers intact and AMG and music store, and some kind of Genie comes along and organizes it for you and pulls it all together. I can totally see what the Slim boxes do, and it seems like they do it really well. I was surprised at how quickly they found the collections on the network and stuff after the setup. But it's going to be a while before anything else does what Soolooos does, I'd bet. -- Amy Lynne ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amy Lynne's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8110 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28499 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
